Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with which Dr. Einstein habitually greeted callers at his office during his business career. In New Faces he functions as a mysterious friend of the scalawag producer, executes nothing resembling his press-release pose (see cut, p. 30) with the vaudeville team of Lowe and Giant Kite, who have bit parts...
...admitted: "Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused and I told Edward. He brought me an application and said, 'Sign here.' I did, but I didn't notice the age. Evidently he lied a little bit about...
With this neat bit of logic, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week opened the great 1937 hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month (TIME, June 14). The hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel...
Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes does not like to delegate authority. To his desk the jury's award went for confirmation, and on his desk it lay for a full five weeks while newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
...thing, four years at Harvard are able to give. For although at the end of undergraduate years a student may feel more obliged to the College for helping him to a knowledge of a field of history, say, or a science, or a pre-legal course or a specific bit of training leading on to a job, the greatest service which the College can give him is the ability to think and "a zest for intellectual endeavor...